[Boost-testing] RE Cygwin "execvp: Argument list too long" errors

Subject: [Boost-testing] RE Cygwin "execvp: Argument list too long" errors
From: frederic.bron_at_[hidden]
Date: 2009-04-17 15:43:04

> In the test "bronf1 - graph - gursoy_atun_layout_test / gcc-cygwin_4.3.2",
> there is an error "execvp: Argument list too long".  I understand that
> those tests have not run recently, but is there a way around that length
> problem?  I believe Cygwin has a response file feature that allows longer
> command lines.  Is this problem important enough to suggest using that
> feature?  Also, will that platform start to have tests run again?

Hi!
I was running the tests on cygwin but I encountered some difficulties:

1) suddenly, the test procedure stopped working (since somewhere between the 2nd of April 16h53 +0000 and the 3rd of April 8h45 +0000); I get the message below when building process_jam_log (I suspect
something related to the definition of BOOST_FILESYSTEM_NARROW_ONLY),

2) I was running the tests on a USB FAT32 external disk and each time I wanted to perform a full test (i.e. not incremental), it took so much time to download the trunk that I posted on the list and
was answered that it was not supposed to run on that type of disk...

so I decided to stop running the tests. If it is possible to find what's wrong in the test procedure with cygwin, I can restart testing but still with my USB FAT32 disk.

F. Bron

    "/usr/bin/g++"  -ftemplate-depth-128 -O3 -finline-functions -Wno-inline -Wall -DBOOST_POSIX_API -DBOOST_POSIX_PATH  -DBOOST_ALL_NO_LIB=1 -DBOOST_FILESYSTEM_STATIC_LINK=1
-DBOOST_SYSTEM_STATIC_LINK=1 -DNDEBUG -D_CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS  -I"/cygdrive/i/boost_regression_cygwin/boost" -c -o "bin\gcc-cygwin_3.4.4\release\process_jam_log.o"
"i:\boost_regression_cygwin\tools_regression\src\process_jam_log.cpp"

In file included from /cygdrive/i/boost_regression_cygwin/boost/boost/filesystem/operations.hpp:17,
                 from i:\boost_regression_cygwin\tools_regression\src\process_jam_log.cpp:12:
/cygdrive/i/boost_regression_cygwin/boost/boost/filesystem/path.hpp:65: error: `wstring' is not a member of `std'
/cygdrive/i/boost_regression_cygwin/boost/boost/filesystem/path.hpp:65: error: `wstring' is not a member of `std'
/cygdrive/i/boost_regression_cygwin/boost/boost/filesystem/path.hpp:65: error: template argument 1 is invalid
/cygdrive/i/boost_regression_cygwin/boost/boost/filesystem/path.hpp:65: error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of `wpath' with no type
/cygdrive/i/boost_regression_cygwin/boost/boost/filesystem/path.hpp:69: error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of `wstring' with no type
/cygdrive/i/boost_regression_cygwin/boost/boost/filesystem/path.hpp:69: error: expected `;' before "internal_string_type"
/cygdrive/i/boost_regression_cygwin/boost/boost/filesystem/path.hpp:79: error: expected `,' or `...' before '&' token
/cygdrive/i/boost_regression_cygwin/boost/boost/filesystem/path.hpp:79: error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of `internal_string_type' with no type
/cygdrive/i/boost_regression_cygwin/boost/boost/filesystem/path.hpp:80: error: `internal_string_type' does not name a type
...
...skipped <pbin/gcc-cygwin_3.4.4/release>process_jam_log for lack of <pbin/gcc-cygwin_3.4.4/release>process_jam_log.o...
...failed updating 4 targets...
...skipped 3 targets...
...updated 20 targets...
# Searching for "process_jam_log.exe" in "/cygdrive/i/boost_regression_cygwin/tools_regression/build"...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "run.py", line 60, in <module>
    runner(root)
  File "/cygdrive/i/boost_regression_cygwin/tools_regression_src/regression.py", line 193, in __init__
    self.main()
  File "/cygdrive/i/boost_regression_cygwin/tools_regression_src/regression.py", line 551, in main
    getattr(self,action_m)()
  File "/cygdrive/i/boost_regression_cygwin/tools_regression_src/regression.py", line 508, in command_regression
    self.command_setup()
  File "/cygdrive/i/boost_regression_cygwin/tools_regression_src/regression.py", line 300, in command_setup
    self.build_if_needed(self.process_jam_log,self.pjl_toolset)
  File "/cygdrive/i/boost_regression_cygwin/tools_regression_src/regression.py", line 650, in build_if_needed
    tool[ 'build_path' ] = self.tool_path( tool )
  File "/cygdrive/i/boost_regression_cygwin/tools_regression_src/regression.py", line 675, in tool_path
    , '\n'.join( [ name_or_spec[ 'path' ], build_dir ] )
Exception: Cannot find "process_jam_log.exe" in any of the following locations:
/cygdrive/i/boost_regression_cygwin/process_jam_log.exe
/cygdrive/i/boost_regression_cygwin/tools_regression/build

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